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 Posted 08/29/2014  7:38 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add cally to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Found these tokens in an old decimal collection. Does anyone know anything about them?

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 Posted 08/29/2014  7:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add agandau to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know about these tokens, but I would guess they would have been made to inform new migrants during the great migration boom after WWII.

What catches my eye is the great condition of the real coins. I can make one to to be 1950 something but the photo is blurry. The coin dates may assist in dating these tokens.
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 Posted 08/29/2014  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Basil to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
....or kids tokens that came with money boxes,i have a vague memory that similar tokens were in a money box I was given back in the 1950's.
Someone on here will know for sure.
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my pop said these were in a show bag from the royal shows many years ago.. and they were in a plastic square you pushed them out or snaped the plastic of them he has one still intact in his shed from when he was a small boy in his toy box
will try and find them
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 Posted 08/30/2014  11:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add agandau to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Oh right, shanew, I can see a few lumps on the side of some of them, where they would have been connected to the plastic frame.
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soon after my sons started primary school, they were taught about coins, and were handed plastic replicas, or "tokens". I'm wondering if you've stumbled over their pre-decimal equivalents ?
If so, lucky you !

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